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everywhere. i've never seen damage like this in my whole life. it's unreal. >> reporter: boats tossed like toys. the lone bridge connecting the island cracked and crumbled with the storm's winds putting some sections totally under water. >> we had about 200 households that didn't evacuate on the island that we know of. >> reporter: anyone still trapped on the isolated island now waiting for rescue by boat or air. we joined the lee county sheriff as he surveyed some of the hardest hit areas to see the full scope of ian's power. >> you know that as we are speaking right now, there are ...

Bill, this has become a story about the atlantic, a story about south carolina, north carolina, apartments of georgia. >> yeah, willie. when we watched the storm heading towards south florida, we were using words like catastrophic, life-threatening. obviously, we've seen the pictures. that's exactly what happened. this won't be catastrophic. this will be damaging but still life-threatening because we have storm surge potential high enough to be life-threatening if someone is on the beaches or the low-lying areas. we also have a lot of trees that will be falling and that could be life-threateni...